What parts of your personality do you show the world?
Which ones do you bury in your shadow?

We all have a Persona, a collection of our personality traits that we have deemed acceptable and safe to show to other people. But there are many other parts of us that we hide from the world for all kinds of reasons.

Maybe we were raised in a situation where we chose to hide our softer side to avoid being ridiculed. Or maybe we grew up in a hostile environment and we learned to bury those parts because showing them could come with painful consequences.

Or on the converse side, if we learned to bury our aggressive tendencies. Yet find that we blow up at people for no reason, feeling like something "came over me"

Our own life, in conglomeration with our family,  friends, and culture all play a role in what parts of us come out and which ones do not.

But if we do not bring awareness to our shadow and seek to uncover those parts of us, and form a relationship to them, then they will act upon us through our subconscious. Causing us to act in ways we don't intend, and potentially creating pain in our lives or those around us.

In this episode I want to help to shine a light on those buried elements of us, so that we can learn to express them in healthy ways, or direct that energy into other parts of our lives.